East Lake, Kings Canyon

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Notes of this trip

Click here for the trail up to the Sphinx junction


Sphinx junction
Bear at sunrise

Bubbs Creek trail
Bubbs Creek trail
Bubbs Creek trail
Bubbs Creek trail

Bubbs Creek trail
Bubbs Creek trail
Bubbs Creek trail
Bubbs Creek trail

Bubbs Creek trail
Bubbs Creek trail
Bubbs Creek trail
Bubbs Creek trail

Bubbs Creek trail
Bubbs Creek trail
Bubbs Creek trail

Public transporation on Bubbs Creek trail
Bubbs Creek trail

Bubbs Creek
The other side of the canyon
Bubbs Creek
Bubbs Creek

Bubbs Creek
Bubbs Creek
Bubbs Creek
Bubbs Creek

Bubbs Creek
Bubbs Creek

Bubbs Creek
Bubbs Creek
Bubbs Creek

Bubbs Creek
Bubbs Creek
Bubbs Creek

Bubbs Creek
Bubbs Creek
Bubbs Creek
Bubbs Creek

Bubbs Creek
Bubbs Creek

First creek crossing
First creek crossing
Charlotte Creek
The trail

The trail
Half Dome in Kings Canyon?
The creek

Charlotte Meadow
Meadow before Junction meadow
Meadow before Junction meadow
Spires of Mt Bago

Approaching Junction Meadow
Approaching Junction Meadow

Approaching Junction Meadow
Junction Meadow
Mt Bago at Junction Meadow

Junction meadow
Junction meadow
Junction meadow
Junction meadow

Junction meadow
Junction meadow
Junction meadow
Across the canyon

Junction meadow
Junction meadow
Junction meadow
Junction meadow

Junction meadow, Kearsarge Pinnacles and West Vidette
Junction meadow, Kearsarge Pinnacles and West Vidette
Deer at the meadow
Deer at the meadow

Junction meadow
The canyon to East Lake
The fork to East Lake
The fork to East Lake

Wading the Bubbs Creek
Wading the Bubbs Creek

Mt Bago from the beginning of the East Lake trail

The spires of Mt Bago
The spires of Mt Bago
Huge waterfall to the east
Huge waterfall to the east

Rocky mountain
The trail on the other side
Mt Bago behing me

The creek coming down from East Lake
West Vidette
West Vidette
The trail follows the creek up

The creek
The creek
The bridge
The bridge

The bridge
Mt Bago at the bridge
The trail crosses over the creek
Flowers by the creek

The creek
The creek
Mt Bago behing me
The creek

Giant mushroom
West Vidette
Up the canyon
Up the canyon

Flowers
The trail
The creek
Up the trail

Thorny bush
Mt Bago behing me
Mt Bago behing me
Up the canyon

Hiking up the western side of the creek (2007)
Hiking up the western side of the creek (2007)

Hiking up the western side of the creek (2007)
Hiking up the western side of the creek (2007)
Hiking up the western side of the creek (2007)
Hiking up the western side of the creek (2007)

Hiking up the western side of the creek (2007)
Hiking up the western side of the creek (2007)
Hiking up the western side of the creek (2007)
Hiking up the western side of the creek (2007)

The creek
First view of Mt Brewer (the second peak)

To East Lake
To East Lake
To East Lake
To East Lake

To East Lake
To East Lake
To East Lake
East Lake sign

East Lake sign
East Lake
South side of East Lake

Mt Brewer
How to cross East Lake if you are headed for Mt Brewer
Milly's Pass far away
Looking south towards Lake Reflection and Milly's Pass

East Lake panorama

Mt Brewer and North Guard
East Lake

East Lake
East Lake
The view further up (south)
Mt Brewer's Eastern Ridge

Crossing to the other side of the lake
Crossing to the other side of the lake
Crossing to the other side of the lake
The crossing from below

Mt Brewer's Eastern Ridge
Mt Brewer's Eastern Ridge
Mt Brewer's Northern Ridge

East Lake
Flowers by the lake
Probably easier to cross the lake at the southern tip
Deer by the lake

Bear on the trail (2015)
Bear on the trail

Mt Brewer | Mt Stanford's north ridge | Mt Stanford via Harrison Pass | Lucy's Pass | Charlotte Lake | Crossing the Kings-Kern Divide | Mt Ericsson | Rae Lakes | Sixty Lakes Basin

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(Copyright © 2003 Piero Scaruffi | Legal restrictions - Termini d'uso )
If you would like to purchase the original, high-resolution pictures, contact me